On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 12:30 +0100, Christopher Ross wrote: > On 24/08/17 10:59, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 09:03 +0100, Christopher Ross wrote: > > > On 23/08/17 14:27, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > > On 08/23/2017 08:40 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > > > # dnf upgrade > > > > > Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:00 ago on Wed Aug 23 04:43:05 2017. > > > > > Dependencies resolved. > > > > > > > > > > Problem: cannot install the best update candidate for package > > > > > firefox-55.0.1-1.fc26.x86_64 > > > > > - nothing provides nspr >= 4.16.0 needed by firefox-55.0.2-1.fc26.x86_64 > > > > > > > > > > > > nspr is still in updates-testing. If you want you can run "dnf --enablerepo > > > > updates-testing update firefox" > > > > > > Thank you! I have just done that. Because dnf wasn't able to update > > > Firefox to the best version it removed it instead! I assume this is a > > > result of the combination --best --allowerasing which I generally use. > > > I've never had it just remove things completely leaving no version > > > installed though :( > > > > That doesn't look right. AFAIK "--allowerasing" will delete a package > > that is blocking something else from updating, but not otherwise. It > > shouldn't remove a package just because it can't get the latest > > version. > > > > Well that is exactly what happened. The command > > dnf --refresh --best --allowerasing upgrade > > Could not update Firefox because of the missing dependency (nspr) so it > removed Firefox completely instead. This is not what I expected to > happen. This is the command I generally use to update the system, pretty > much daily. The man page for dnf says: "Allow erasing of installed packages to resolve dependencies" (which is actually not as clear as it might be - would removing every package on the system resolve dependencies?). However that is consistent with what it did in your case. It removed FF because it couldn't update nspr, not "Because dnf wasn't able to update Firefox to the best version it removed it instead", which is the phrase I was reacting to. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
